Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford gets his hair cut at the Cosmonaut Hotel on October 21, 2012, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for October 23 and will send Expedition 33\/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. UPI\/\/Bill Ingalls\/NASA <\/p>\n
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Published: Nov. 17, 2012 at 7:29 PM<\/p>\n
HOUSTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Suni Williams handed over command of the International Space Station Saturday to fellow U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford. <\/p>\n
Williams, Aki Hoshide of Japan and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko were scheduled to leave Sunday in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. They were expected to land Monday, local time, in Kazakhstan after 127 days in space, Florida Today reported. <\/p>\n
On Friday, ground crew for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration determined that an orbiting piece of space junk would miss the space station. Plans for a \"debris avoidance maneuver\" by having a Russian supply ship fire its engines were abandoned. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original here: Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford gets his hair cut at the Cosmonaut Hotel on October 21, 2012, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for October 23 and will send Expedition 33\/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. UPI\/\/Bill Ingalls\/NASA License photo Published: Nov Continue reading
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